An official with MEP told the news press today that the Ministry will work with relevant provinces (municipalities) to launch the thematic inspection between Feb. 15 and Mar. 15 on air quality in the first quarter, in order to urge Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding a......
(Beijing) — Three of the four largest cities in affluent Guangdong province will upgrade their entire public-bus fleets to electric-powered vehicles by 2020 — part of an ambitious plan to make three-quarters of all provincial public buses powered by clean energy over the......
(Beijing) — China’s new-energy car sales plunged in January as buyers and manufacturers took to the sidelines as the government restructured an incentive system that had been widely abused.The country has embarked on an aggressive program to build up its new-energy car s......
China’s air quality monitoring network is completed as over 5,000 monitoring centers have been set up at national, provincial, municipal and county levels, according to China National Environmental Monitoring Center (CNEMC). Since the 12th five-year plan period, China ha......
In the largest epidemiological study conducted in the developing world, researchers found that as exposures to fine particulate air pollution in 272 Chinese cities increase, so do deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.The researchers reported their results ......
In 2016,the annual average PM2.5 concentration in Beijing was 73μg/m3, which means a 23.7 percent decrease since 2012. Beijing aims to reach 60 μg/m3 by the end of this year according to the plan announced in 2013. In five years, Beijing has closed over 1,200 polluting ......
(Beijing) — China will launch the trading of green certificates, electronic warranties proving electricity has been generated from renewable energy, in the second half of this year, the government has said.The launch of the system, which has been under consideration for ......
MEP released the Provisional Regulations on the Management of Pollution Permit (hereinafter referred to as the Provisional Regulations) recently, for the purposes of implementing the Plan of Implementation of the Pollution Permitting System for Control of Pollutants (her......
A cement town at the centre of China’s air pollution crisis is looking for a clean break, writes Zhang ChunChina’s economy and with it the frenetic pace of infrastructure construction are beginning to slow. This is good news for efforts to reduce air pollution but prese......
China cancelled many power projects in 2016 but the sector looks set to get squeezed further this year, writes Feng HaoLast year was the “year of cancelling coal” declared some Chinese media outlets, but the latest coal power policies suggest that 2017 is going to be ev......
